Generating, evaluating, endorsing, and implementing malevolent creativity: a malevolent idea journey.

ABSTRACT: Over the last years, malevolent creativity research has delved into creative ideas that intend to harm both on the smaller and larger scale (from creative bullying or deception to terrorism and warfare) in different settings (personal revenge, organizational level, crime). Here, studies have almost exclusively focused on generating/having malevolently creative ideas, either by having people self-report frequency of such ideas, or by measuring their performance on malevolent creativity tests. However, according to stage-based creativity models, (malevolent) idea generation is only one, arguably less consequential aspect of the creative process. Indeed, having harmful creative ideas does not equate assigning them a high value, endorsing them in others, nor implementing them in real-life, whi

SUBMITTER: Perchtold-Stefan C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12712856 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature